Inside Relativity

Author : Delo E. Mook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691025209
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Relativity written by Delo E. Mook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

Author : Jacob T. Schwartz
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486165531
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity in Illustrations written by Jacob T. Schwartz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clear, nontechnical treatment makes principles of relativity more accessible than ever. The author gradually introduces Einstein's ideas in terms of familiar concepts from high school-level geometry. More than 60 helpful drawings.

Author : Thomas Vargish
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300076134
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Modernism written by Thomas Vargish and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, a professor of literature and a physicist offer a broad, new, interdisciplinary account of Modernism. Thomas Vargish and Delo E. Mook encompass physics, the visual arts and literature in a thought-provoking analysis of the period from the 1880s to World War II. Uncovering common structures and values underlying each of these disparate fields, the authors define Modernism and its historical location between nineteenth-century intellectual conventions that preceded it and the Postmodernism that followed. Bridging boundaries that traditionally divide disciplines, Vargish and Mook create a uniquely coherent and comprehensive view of the aesthetics and intellectual values that characterize the culture of Modernism.

Author : Éric Gourgoulhon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642372767
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Special Relativity in General Frames written by Éric Gourgoulhon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special relativity is the basis of many fields in modern physics: particle physics, quantum field theory, high-energy astrophysics, etc. This theory is presented here by adopting a four-dimensional point of view from the start. An outstanding feature of the book is that it doesn’t restrict itself to inertial frames but considers accelerated and rotating observers. It is thus possible to treat physical effects such as the Thomas precession or the Sagnac effect in a simple yet precise manner. In the final chapters, more advanced topics like tensorial fields in spacetime, exterior calculus and relativistic hydrodynamics are addressed. In the last, brief chapter the author gives a preview of gravity and shows where it becomes incompatible with Minkowsky spacetime. Well illustrated and enriched by many historical notes, this book also presents many applications of special relativity, ranging from particle physics (accelerators, particle collisions, quark-gluon plasma) to astrophysics (relativistic jets, active galactic nuclei), and including practical applications (Sagnac gyrometers, synchrotron radiation, GPS). In addition, the book provides some mathematical developments, such as the detailed analysis of the Lorentz group and its Lie algebra. The book is suitable for students in the third year of a physics degree or on a masters course, as well as researchers and any reader interested in relativity. Thanks to the geometric approach adopted, this book should also be beneficial for the study of general relativity. “A modern presentation of special relativity must put forward its essential structures, before illustrating them using concrete applications to specific dynamical problems. Such is the challenge (so successfully met!) of the beautiful book by Éric Gourgoulhon.” (excerpt from the Foreword by Thibault Damour)

Author : Alan P. Lightman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problem Book in Relativity and Gravitation written by Alan P. Lightman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Delo E. Mook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069118741X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Relativity written by Delo E. Mook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here a physicist and a professor of literature guide general readers through the ideas that revolutionized our conception of the physical universe.

Author : Banesh Hoffmann
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486406763
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity and Its Roots written by Banesh Hoffmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entertaining, nontechnical demonstrations of the meaning of relativity theory trace development from basis in geometrical, cosmological ideas of the ancient Greeks, plus work by Kepler, Galileo, Newton, others. 1983 edition.

Author : Nicole Valentine
Publisher : Carolrhoda Books ®
ISBN 13 : 1541564472
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Time Traveler's Theory of Relativity written by Nicole Valentine and published by Carolrhoda Books ®. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He believes in science, but only magic can help his mom. Twelve-year-old Finn is used to people in his family disappearing. His twin sister, Faith, drowned when they were three years old. A few months ago, his mom abandoned him and his dad with no explanation. Finn clings to the concrete facts in his physics books—and to his best friend, Gabi—to ward off his sadness. But then his grandmother tells him a secret: the women in their family are Travelers, able to move back and forth in time. Finn's mom is trapped somewhere in the timeline, and she's left Finn a portal to find her. But to succeed, he'll have to put his trust in something bigger than logic. "This is an incredible book, no matter which time universe you're in. I couldn't put it down. One of my favorite debut novels of the year."—Erin Entrada Kelly, New York Times bestselling author and 2018 Newbery Medal winner

Author : G. Rizzi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401705283
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Relativity in Rotating Frames written by G. Rizzi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even if the subject is a long-standing one, this is the first monograph on this field. On the one hand, this book is intended to give a rather wide review on this field, both in a historical and pedagogical perspective; on the other hand, it aims at critically re-examining and discussing the most controversial issues. For instance, according to some authors the celebrated Sagnac effect is a disproval of the theory of relativity applied to rotating frames; according to others, it is an astonishing experimental evidence of the relativistic theory. In order to give the reader a deeper insight into this research field, the contributing authors discuss their opinions on the main subjects in an enthralling virtual round table: in this way, the reader can get a direct comparison of the various viewpoints on the most controversial and interesting topics. This is particularly expedient, since the differences in the various approaches are often based upon subtleties that can be understood only by a direct comparison of the underlying hypotheses.

Author : R. K. Pathria
Publisher : Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780486428192
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Relativity written by R. K. Pathria and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graduate-level text elaborates on physical ideas underlying relativity, examining special theory (space-time transformations, four-dimensional formulations, mechanics, optics, electromagnetism), and general theory (space-time continuum, gravitation, experiments, and relativistic cosmology). 1974 edition.